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From: rvp@homxc.ATT.COM (R.PHILLIPS)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Where Can I Get F-PC 2.25 for Next-To-Nothing?
Summary: NEXT-TO-NOTHING F-PC 2.25
Keywords: F-PC
Message-ID: <6548@homxc.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 May 89 13:44:57 GMT
References: <269@melair.UUCP>
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In article <269@melair.UUCP>, low@melair.UUCP (Rick Low) writes:
> I noticed in BYTE April 1989 What's New that the Silicon Valley
> Chapter of FIG has donated F-PC 2.25 to the public domain.
> 
> Is the company listed in the article (Offete Enterprises, San Mateo, CA)
> the only place I can get this package from?  Since it's PD, I thought
> there would be somewhere else I could get it from for next to nothing,
> rather than pay Offete's $75 ($25, plus $50 for manuals).
> 
> thanks for the help
> -- 
> Rick Low
> MEL Defence Systems Limited, Ottawa, Canada
> +1 613 836 6860
> mitel!melair!low@uunet.UU.NET

Call the East Coast Forth Board: 1-703-442-8695

You may download for free, or get 360K 5 1/4" diskettes for the IBM-PC,
at a price of $5 per diskette, or 6 for $25.
This bulletin board system has a LOT of activity, and it offers
MANY F-PC packages, including graphics, IEEE floating point, etc!
I have not gotten it yet, but will in a week or so. I've been waiting
for a great environment with a lot of support to start learning FORTH,
and it looks like this is IT for IBM-PC owners!
I think the basic stuff, documentation and manuals, will fit on 3
or 4 diskettes. 

The available files also include tutorials for F-PC, and "conferences"
for F-PC support.